Tuesday, November 29, 2011

To-Do Lists

I've been sharing an email conversation this week regarding to-do lists, sparked by this article about Leonardo DaVinci, ADHD and creativity. I loved the variety in the accompanying illustration by Wendy MacNaughton - everything from pick up a specific book to "Draw Milan". A friend sent me her list that ranged from considering how to be a more concientious consumer to grade papers. Here's my list:

Put away outdoor table and chairsPut up Christmas lightsGrocery shoppingBring framed photos of my kids to workSend updated photos to the grandparents for ChristmasTake my car in for repairsGet haircut for AndrewLaundryThink about my faithArt journal page – Grace Like RainMake a plan for Christmas shoppingFinish service line projections for FY12 and FY13Monday Scorecard (yes, I know it’s Tuesday)Neurosurgery market analysisPrepare agenda for Dec. 13th FCO Board meeting and send out so members will prepare ahead of timeSend FCO December Concert Press Release Info to PresidentSee if band boosters need help on SaturdayCheck home email – FIRE bands playing on Saturday? And e-pethealth registrationKnit socksSchedule time with Andrew to work on his family life project for SundaySchedule riding lesson? Talk to Erin firstPick Taurus up from garageMap ThanksgivingGet out the rest of the Christmas CDsAsk Andrew to practice violinReschedule Friday phone callStart work physician listing criteriaFinish painting Erin’s closet doors

And here are some quotes I've been saving up for possible art journal pages:

"Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.”Jasper Fforde

“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”― Jasper Fforde

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently,as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”― Thich Nhat Hanh

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,instead of theories to suit facts.”― Arthur Conan Doyle

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”Bill Watterson

“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”― L.M. Montgomery

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."G.K. Chesterton

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

"Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions."— Tom Robbins

"Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer."— Tom Robbins

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth,but most of them pick themselves upand hurry off as if nothing ever happened."— Winston S. Churchill

quan-da-ry [kwon-duh-ree, -dree] 1. a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.

"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any."~ Orson Scott Card

"I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them."~Ray Bradbury

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy.You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things." — Ray Bradbury

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."— Lewis Carroll

"I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years." — Tina Fey

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"~Oscar Wilde

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."~Wayne W. Dyer

“Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.” ― G.K. Chesterton

My Library

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Little

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.Shirley MacLaineThe cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity.Ellen Parn'Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.'H Jackson Brown Jnr

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."~Ray Bradbury

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.Tenneva Jordan

I don't really care if my glass is 1/2 full or 1/2 empty - I'm just happy to have a glass.Joe Farrell

About Me

I'm trying to pack as many things into my life as possible while still maintaining balance. This site chronicles some of these things and occasionally relates how the whole balance thing is working out (or not working out).